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The Impossible Workload for Doctors in Training – 4/19/2013

April 19, 2013 -- One spring morning during the second year of my surgical residency, I learned that two of my classmates, junior residents like me, had suddenly been fired.

Their dismissal left just four of us to cover two hospitals and the work of six junior residents. I quickly did the math in my head. We would have to split up into pairs, and we would have to work through every other night for the rest of the year.